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I keep coming across the word Coda, and cannot find it in a dictionary. It relates to narratives, not syllables. Also notice capitalisation.

e.g. "Finally the narrator may comment on the point of telling the story in a Coda, often using a demonstrative that to refer to the story itself along with some expression of attitude (e.g. That was a really close call).
From J.R. Martin - Language, register and genre.

I am assuming it is like coda in music, the final movement of a piece.
Is this a fair/correct assumption

Thinking back a thousand years to my college course in literary criticism, your example seems like a distancing mechanism, a way for the narrator to step back from telling the story and address the reader directly. For some reason, it always annoyed me when this happened--it was as if the narrator thought readers couldn't figure things out on their own.

tigertiger wrote:I keep coming across the word Coda, and cannot find it in a dictionary. It relates to narratives, not syllables. Also notice capitalisation.

e.g. "Finally the narrator may comment on the point of telling the story in a Coda, often using a demonstrative that to refer to the story itself along with some expression of attitude (e.g. That was a really close call).
From J.R. Martin - Language, register and genre.

I am assuming it is like coda in music, the final movement of a piece.
Is this a fair/correct assumption

A coda is a closing passage that falls outside the basic structure.

coda: an endnote, or final word, in which the author elucidates what has come before. A coda might also reveal what happened to the characters after the close of the novel proper...

metal56 wrote:

tigertiger wrote:I keep coming across the word Coda, and cannot find it in a dictionary. It relates to narratives, not syllables. Also notice capitalisation.

e.g. "Finally the narrator may comment on the point of telling the story in a Coda, often using a demonstrative that to refer to the story itself along with some expression of attitude (e.g. That was a really close call).
From J.R. Martin - Language, register and genre.

I am assuming it is like coda in music, the final movement of a piece.
Is this a fair/correct assumption

A coda is a closing passage that falls outside the basic structure.

coda: an endnote, or final word, in which the author elucidates what has come before. A coda might also reveal what happened to the characters after the close of the novel proper...

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